I sympathize with the user. They should step back, but that doesn't stop people from openly harassing them against their wishes. I looked into their post history, saw they made a suggestion that they wanted settings to limit how people interact with them privately, and in that thread there's a person who literally came out of the woodworks explicitly to harass them (https://i.gyazo.com/51a1521706c6e2bebc7c1a99d7b37da3.png). They DO step away when things get too stressful in threads (and openly say so (https://i.gyazo.com/4acf33525134c4443ab7e23719b65e2a.png)), so they DO try, but it's evident that people are very happy to seek them out to harass and whatever reaction they have in the moment is 100% understandable even if irrational.

Dako even apologized and edited posts for being too aggressive on a few occasions, so they're not completely at fault and recognize when they're being overly reactionary.